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This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. This book covers topics ranging from geopolitical relations to regional integration, public health governance and even the evolution of professional practices in the time of COVID-19. It constitutes a precious and timely interdisciplinary reference for anyone aspiring not only to grasp the origins and dynamics of the present challenge, but also to identify future opportunities for further growth and holistic progress for humanity.

Introduction ...................................................... 1 Edoardo Monaco

Global Economics, Politics and Public Health Responses

US-China Rivalry and Its Implications for the Post-Pandemic World ............................................................ 9 Suisheng Zhao, Simon X.B. Zhao, and Zhen Zhang

Global Disorder for the Post-COVID-19 World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Suisheng Zhao and Johnston H.C. Wong

Post-pandemic De-globalization? Analysis of Likely Changes in Global Supply Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Simon X.B. Zhao and Zekai Gong

Actions Across Government and COVID-19: The Experience of Mainland China, Macao and Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Edoardo Monaco, Kwok Cho Tang, Wah Kwan Cheng, Huixin Liu, and Bijun Pan

COVID-19 and the Political Economy of the European Union: New Crisis, Old Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Michal Vavrik and Edoardo Monaco

Government Emergency Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: A Comparative Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Johnston H.C. Wong

Country Reports and Comparative Studies

Experiences of and Responses to COVID-19 in East Asia: The Cases of Japan and Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Yong Xin Ruan and Charles T. L. Leung

Where Everyone Plays a Part: Singapore’s Health EDRM Responses in Face of the COVID-19 Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Ghee W. Ho

COVID-19 Outbreak in India: Country Features and Social Impact . . . . 159 Md. Nazrul Islam

Fighting the Invisible Enemy—COVID-19: How Ghana Fared . . . . . . . . . 173 Gabriel Owusu

The “Perfect Storm”: A Failed Response to the Pandemic in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Charles Lowe and Benjamin Barber

‘A Mild Dose of the Flu’: The Discourse of the COVID-19 Crisis in Brazil and the Impact of the Pandemic on the Internationalization of Brazilian Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 John Corbett

New Order and Impacts in Business, Culture and Society

Translating Against COVID-19 in the Chinese Context: A Multi-agent, Multimedia and Multilingual Endeavor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Mengying Jiang

Imagining Online Exhibition in the Pandemic: A Translational Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Ge Song

The Role of American Journalism During a Pandemic: Uncertainty and Lessons not Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman

Farther Apart, Closer Together: How the Use of New Technologies During COVID-19 May Forever Alter the Face of Journalism . . . . . . . . . 271 Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman and Johnny Bliss

Post-pandemic Literature: Force and Moral Obligation to the Other in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Camus’ The Plague . . . . . . . . 285 Benjamin Barber

Embracing Digital Teaching and Learning: Innovation Upon COVID-19 in Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Edith M. Y. Yan

Navigating Public Relations in a Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Xiaomeng Lan

The Pandemic and Advertising: Be (AD)Normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Chai Lee Lim

University Image Building via WeChat During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Chinese Higher Education Institution . . . . 359 Hong Qian and Jia Zhang

Native Advertising Discourse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of WeChat Official Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Jiaqi Liang and Xiaying Xu

Conclusion: COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World—Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Charles Lowe